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Table of Contents
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Executive Summary
PART I - THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
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The Civil Justice System
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Pressures on many Civil Justice Systems and on Hong Kong's System
Pressures on the Hong Kong System: Expense, Delay, Complexity and Unrepresented Litigants
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Expense
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Delay
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Complexity
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Unrepresented litigants
PART II - POSSIBLE REFORMS
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Need for Reform
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Reforms and expense
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The Woolf reforms as a useful framework
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The main concepts underlying the Woolf reforms
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The overriding objective
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Case management
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Possible reforms in specific areas
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Pre-action protocols
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Mode of commencing proceedings and challenging jurisdiction
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Default judgments and admissions
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49 - 54
Pleadings and statements of truth
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Summary disposal of cases or issues
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Offers of settlement and payment into court
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Interim remedies and security for costs
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63 - 67
Case management - timetabling and milestones
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68 - 69
A docket system
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70 - 72
Specialist lists
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73 - 78
Multi-party litigation
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79 - 87
Discovery
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88 - 94
Interlocutory applications
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95 - 96
Witness statements
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97 - 99
Expert evidence
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100
Trials and case management
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101
Appeals
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102 - 106
Costs
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107
The CPR schedules of provisions from the RSC
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108 - 109
Possible reforms and ADR
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110
Judicial review
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111 - 117
Implementing the reforms
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118 - 123
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